This Facebook work against misinformation is very very impressive and critical work. So glad this is being done. Also, crazy that some people tend to believe "False" news MORE when it's been flagged as false. Amazing.

The Founders For Founders mentors include Chris Saad, the Brisbane-born founder of several software design start-ups who most recently spent two years running Uber's platform for third-party developers.

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Mr Saad there was no substitute for budding founders interacting with experienced founders.

"When I arrived in San Francisco in 2007, after years starting things in Australia with really no ecosystem to speak of, it felt like coming home," he said.

"Suddenly you're talking to founders everywhere, overhearing them, and your brain gets rewired. You recalibrate your expectations around scale, quality and hustle. It raises the bar of what you are striving for."

Concepts like ownership, law, money, monarchy, governance etc - they are merely constructs built on this fundamental mechanism.

Said another way: the only reason we can own a piece of land or money has value or the queen is the queen is because a sufficient number of people agree that those things are true. All the mechanisms and norms of society only exist because the majority basically agree they exist.

In an era where our most senior business and political leaders are explicitly calling into question our fundamental institutions of operationalized consensus - or manipulating them for their own greedy and corrupt ends - a new kind of consensus needs to emerge.

That’s why Blockchain technology is so very important.

Being able to turn human consensus into running code and an immutable distributed dataset (e.g a ledger) transforms our implicit rules operated by central authorities into distributed, peer-to-peer operations.

We can now#unbundle consensus from legacy, centralized institutions and put it at the edge.

Drop me a line at me@chrissaad.com if you're curious to learn more. Please be sure to include information about what you’re working on and the kind of challenges or opportunities you’re facing at the moment.